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<function name="Find" parent="file" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Returns a list of files and directories inside a single folder.</description> <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="name" type="string">The wildcard to search for. "models/*.mdl" will list .mdl files in the models/ folder.</arg> <arg name="path" type="string">The path to look for the files and directories in. See <page text="this list">File_Search_Paths</page> for a list of valid paths.</arg> <arg name="sorting" type="string" default="nameasc">The sorting to be used, optional. * "nameasc" sort the files ascending by name * "namedesc" sort the files descending by name * "dateasc" sort the files ascending by date * "datedesc" sort the files descending by date</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="table">A table of found files, or nil if the path is invalid</ret> <ret name="" type="table">A table of found directories, or nil if the path is invalid</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Prints the first file and the first directory in the `data` folder.</description> <code> local files, directories = file.Find("*", "DATA") print( "File: " .. files[1], "Folder: " .. directories[1] ) </code> <output>⤶ &lt;br /&gt; File: helloworld.txt&lt;br /&gt;⤶ <output><br />⤶ File: helloworld.txt<br />⤶ Folder: ctp </output> </example>